Xref: utzoo comp.graphics:17631 news.groups:31485 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.graphics,news.groups Subject: Re: Proposal for comp.graphics.research newsgroup Keywords: "But do you have anything similar in earwig?" -- Lefty@apple.com Message-ID: <1991Apr30.065911.18872@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 30 Apr 91 06:59:11 GMT References: <13207@goofy.Apple.COM> <9104270854.AA10131@enuxha.eas.asu.edu> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 42 In article <9104270854.AA10131@enuxha.eas.asu.edu> hollasch@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Steve Hollasch) writes: turk@Apple.COM (Ken "Turk" Turkowski) writes: >> I propose the establish the newsgroup: >> comp.graphics.research > you don't create "interesting" articles by creating a new newsgroup > for them No, but you lure back the people who have interesting things to say by weeding out the trash that drove them away. That's why I strongly advocate moderation for the new group. > What usually happens with this discussion is that ... Then someone > suggests that we create a separate newsgroup for the disussion of > graphics formats. This is a solved problem, if people would just adopt the solution. EVERYONE READING THIS IN COMP.GRAPHICS, WRITE A NOTE TO YOUR SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATORS ASKING THAT THEY GET A FEED FOR alt.graphics.pixutils, A GROUP DEDICATED TO TALKING ABOUT GRAPHICS FORMATS, SO THAT THAT DISCUSSION CAN BE MOVED OUT OF COMP.GRAPHICS. DO IT _RIGHT_ _NOW_. Isn't that easy? > Let's PLEASE discuss this _one_ newsgroup and put it up to a vote. Sure, sure. What it takes is one strong hand to run a vote through for whatever's needed. You just need someone who will keep at the job until it is done _right_. /// It's Amiga /// for me: why Kent, the man from xanth. \\\/// settle for \XX/ anything less? -- Convener, COMPLETED comp.sys.amiga grand reorganization.